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 · an instance of the fingerpost by Iain Pears ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 9, Nothing in Pears's five archly amusing art mysteries (Giotto's Hand, p. ; The Last Judgement, , etc.) hints at the range or depth or boldness of this multifaceted scrutiny of a murder case in Restoration www.doorway.ru: Kirkus Reviews. The events of An Instance of the Fingerpost are set in motion by the death of an Oxford don and the subsequent trial of Sarah Blundy, the woman accused of his murder. Anthony Wood, a witness to these events, is reconciled to the verdict calling for her execution in the belief that the divine plan will be fulfilled. An Instance of the Fingerpost is a four-part novel, set in the second half of the seventeenth century -- mainly in , not long after the fall of Oliver Cromwell and the Restoration, and mainly in Oxford. The murder of Dr. Robert Grove -- an Oxford Fellow, and an historical figure (as are quite a few of the characters in the novel) -- is the central plot point, though the story ranges far beyond www.doorway.ru: Iain Pears.

An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts--a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt. The year is , and the setting is Oxford, England. An Instance of the Fingerpost is a historical mystery novel by Iain Pears. Synopsis. A murder in 17th-century Oxford is related from the contradictory points of view of four of the characters, all of them unreliable narrators. The setting of the novel is , just after the. An Instance of the Fingerpost Book Summary and Study Guide. Iain Pears Booklist Iain Pears Message Board. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of An Instance of the Fingerpost; In , an Oxford professor has been poisoned with arsenic -- that much is clear. But who did it and why is not. Four different narrators tell the same story and implicate.

An Instance of the Fingerpost. by Iain Pears. 1. The four narrators of An Instance of the Fingerpost illustrate that there is never just one side to a story, that an event can be interpreted in a multitude of ways. As readers, however, we're conditioned to trust our narrator. Pears published seven books in the series: The Raphael Affair () The Titian Committee () The Bernini Bust () The Last Judgement () Giotto's Hand () Death and Restoration () The Immaculate Deception () Novels. An Instance of the Fingerpost () The Dream of Scipio () The Portrait () Stone's Fall ( A national bestseller and one of the New York Public Library's Books to Remember, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a thrilling historical mystery from Iain Pears. "It is , and England is wracked with intrigue and civil strife. When an Oxford don is murdered, it seems at first that the incident can have nothing to do with great matters of church and www.doorway.ru, little is as it seems in this gripping novel, which dramatizes the ways in which witnesses can see the same events yet remember.